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97 Honda Civic Why wont dome light come on?
This post is about my daughters 97 Honda Civic's dome light not coming on when the doors open, so why is there a picture of radio on this blog post? Let me explain.
Last weekend, I was tooling around with my daughters car and noticed that when you open a door the dome light did not come on. So I tried each door and no light. However, the dome light does come on if you switch to manual ON position, but then the light does not go off when you shut the doors. So I call my brother the mechanic, he told me to check the little switches on the doors and to aslo check the dome light to make sure it was properly grounded. Everything looked good so I went to my friend google.
Google search results were not making any sense. Dome light controled by the factory radio wiring? Huh? The factory installed radio in my daughters car was replaced with a cheapo radio prior to us buying the car. Next stop eBay.
Ebay search results were fantastic. I found a nice factory radio for a 98 Honda Civic EX that was compatible for my daughters 97 Honda Civic EX for $20 dollars plus shipping. The radio was delivered in 2 days!!! I installed the factory radio and the dome light now works great.
Who would of thought that the radio wiring on a 97 Honda Civic EX would control the dome light...
This entry was posted on October 2nd, 2009 at 05:59:37 am by Mr Bump and is filed under Ramblings.
Tags: 97 civic, anntena, dome light, ebay, honda civic, interior light, radio
4 comments
Thanks for your post. A few weeks back I bought a 1997 Civic LX. It has an aftermarket radio/CD player, and like your daughter's car, the domelight in mine does not work in the "center" position when the doors open. I am guessing it is the same problem. I wonder if there is a fix apart from replacing the aftermarket radio with a factory radio? More investigation ahead...at any rate, I enjoyed your post and was glad to hear I wasn't going crazy trying to troubleshoot this thing! Take care, Mike
Just a quick update ... I found several posts on Honda Civic forums that offered a way to correct the problem without re-installing a factory radio. The fix is to jump (splice) the light green wire with a red stripe to the light green wire with a black stripe. Both of these wires can be found on one of the green plastic connectors from the main wiring harness. This green plastic connector is normally plugged into the factory radio, but aftermarket radios do not have a place for it, thus the "broken" connection with the domelight. I read too that cars having keyless entry are affected by this problem.
At any rate, I just tried this on my car and it worked. The dome light now comes on when one of the doors is opened.
-Mike
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